Native American Herbal, Plant Knowledge

COOKBOOK

POWER

Lovesick Lake

Native Ladies

By A. Caskanette and P. Terbasket (Ojibwe)

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Reprinted from Vol 1, issue 1, Spring, 1991, Indigenous Woman, the quarterly

magazine of Indigenous Women's Network. Subscription is by joining. Fee is

$15/year for indigenous women, who join as voting members, and $25 for supporting

non-voting memberships, which may be non-Indian women, men of any ethnicity,

libraries and institutions. Subs/memberships from:

IWN

P.O. Box 174

Lake Elmo, MN 55041

612/777-3629

Don't be impatient. The cookbook

part's at the end, here.

A Metis community near the town of Burleigh Falls, Ontario, has become the

subject of increasing interest. Intrigue has been aroused within government

departments, public areas and other Native communities. A group of dynamic

women from this small (population 150) Native community is the center of this

sudden burst of itnerest. Committment, determination and a positive attitude aptly

describe the qualities the membership exemplifies as they have worked to build the

structure that has become known as the Lovesick Lake Native Women's

Association. The following is their story.

BEGINNINGS

In 1982, Bev Brown, a Native woman from the Metis community, enrolled in a

Native Economic Development and Small Business course at a nearby college in

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